There’s not many ways that you can make sense of a tragedy like the Holocaust. Understanding the details of what happened, however, can make it much easier for everyone to remember this event and help keep something like it from happening in the future. During the Holocaust, more than 11 million men, women, and children were killed by the Nazi Party in Germany simply because they did not fit the criteria for being of the ‘Master Race’. Of those killed, more than 6 million were Jews, singled out because propaganda made them the reason why Germany wasn’t a strong world power.
The Holocaust went on for 12 years. It started with Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 and was originally just about discrimination and hatred. However, as Hitler gained more control and influence in Germany and the Nazi Party became more organized, the discrimination turned to outright murder, which they called the “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem in Germany. This senseless killing was done all over German-occupied Europe during World War II. Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland was actually the event that started the Second World War in Europe.
